Great!
 

Thats really great!

Because on a P4-2.8Ghz Server with JRockIT and 1GB ram I get funny:

shell>cat /proc/loadavg
63.86 48.41 33.75 1/1320 20071

just because limewire is running ;-)

What is JRockit? is it a Java 1.4 compliant JVM? Does it have NIO?

Also ask your self about why you don't use the Sun JVM for your Linux.

There are some JVMs that are "rocketing" only for pure GUI applications, that handle very littel numbers of active threads, because they compile all the code into native code, but then have a pure and slow memory garbage collector that takes much CPU ressources, if there are lots of memory operations, like in networked applications. Also these alternate VMs often have a slow multithreading support (switching threads is costly).

The performance of LimeWire does not depend much on the GUI, but most certainly on the networking components that DO need a efficient memory management in the VM.

Hmm..
 

JRockIt is the JVM from Bea, it is certified to be java-1.5 compatible and is heavily optimized for Intel/Linux. (Has NIO)
It can also choose the GC is uses at runtime, and determinds the algorythm best suited for each use...
I use it since it outperforms the SUN-JVM (server) by about 30% (also with Limewire) and as you can see I need every cycle I can get ;-)
Sun client-Jvm does really bad when it comes down to highest load...

I have to admit that I hacked LimeWire to run batched, since it runs on an webserver withought XFree (but a dummy X11), so I start every 500s a new search, wait 200s and start downloading all results.

Seems like Limewire was not designed for this, I end up with thousands of threads and extremly high loads...

No the core was not designed to perform so many searches and downloads at the same time (200 if you download all results!)
So your case is not what actual users of Limewire experiment, because your client is not Limewire (even if it uses its core).

Are you doing that spy on the content available on the GNet, given a list of copyrighted products? Are you working for a company that sends thousands of fake results to defeat the downloads on Gnutella?

Hmm
 

Well, I just hacked the GUI a bit - its Limewire with auto-called event-loops (of course through SwingUtilities ;-)).

No, I am just what some folks would call a "script-kiddie".
I just use it for myself, no bad big company behind me paying me $$$ for destroying something. I really like the Gnutella net, I do not want to destroy it ;-)

lg Clemens

What I'd like to see in limewire above faster load times and lower cpu utilization would be to allow music being downloaded to be streamed to players like itunes and WMP. (using an mp3 stream or somthing similar)

Error message Alerts
 

Maybe I experince this due to some fault of my own, but it's annoying and I would love a fix someday.
While I'm at school and using the university network connection, periodically the network with bottleneck or get restricted from overuse or administrator action. The problem is that I will get an error message when my hosts all drop out, telling me that a firewall or network is holding up my traffic.
Well be that as it may it's something I have to deal with, but the unfortunate part is that I get not only one of these messages, they begin to pile up fast. Even when LW is running in my dock/background(I'm using Mac OSX{10.3.9}) LW will pop up to alert me of this problem, however the application itself won't actually come to the front, only the top alert, forcing me to manually select LW.
On a bad day, especially if I'm not here to disconnect LW right away, I can get a stack of these a mile high which makes it impossible to access LW since the alerts superceed any other action, meanwhile more messages pop up.
If alerts could pop up not as a dialog box, but maybe in a scrolling window which could be ignored or at least moved, much the way Java errors come up in my browser.

Just my wish.


As an aside, I like that my downloads will continue even when I disconnect from the hosts on some occassions. More support to those who may be stuck behind a firewall or network not of their own would be greatly appreciated. I can't directly connect to my roommate but I can search and come with with results with his files, and then browse his computer.

This is a java issue and I don't know if you can fix it:-

No probs with my ATl video card. I upgrade to Nvidia and the display of Java apps is affected by my antialiasing settings. The higher the setting the worse the display...on the higest I just get a gray box.

Need to mess with the AA settings alot now :-(

Here's an Idea for the next version
 

How about having the download page and the search page seperate rather than split in half. That would make it easier I would think to scan for what your looking for and be able to more files at one time.

Port filtering
 

I would like to see the ports changed if possible. My ISP, in their infinite wisdom, has started filtering non-standard ports.

This will probably happen to more and more people as other ISP's follow suit. And it does suck. Cable Modem with a download speed of only 3 or 4K, when it used to be 20 or 30k.